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Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it’s so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.

Python, being a beautifully designed high-level and interpreter-based programming language, provides us with many features for the programmer’s comfort. But sometimes, the outcomes of a Python snippet may not seem obvious to a regular user at first sight.